Google Updates SafeSearch Filter In Image Search

Google has changed the default behavior of their image search to work similarly to how web search works. Now when you search for less explicit search terms while in image search, Google is more likely to filter out explicit images and set your default SafeSearch filter to the on position. When I searched for the keyword [porn] in Google Image Search I was prompted with this warning to “Use the SafeSearch menu to filter explicit results.” It knew I searched for something explicit and was educating me on how to remove those results. Prior, Google didn’t give such a warning, instead they defaulted the searcher to “moderate” and let the user change it to completely off or to “strict.” Now, there are two options for the SafeSearch filter : Check “Filter explicit results” to filter sexually explicit video and images from Google search results pages, as well as results that might...